Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-08

Iton tbt ehu Vi we flNSE
se Tue Other the wieh Will be expressed
shaS he mag soon be restored to duty.
Said an east Yankton county farmer
IN Dan MeDevitt's to-day: I've the
Fest crops I've raised here in thirty
years-the best corn, the best oats, the
best wheat. and potatoee, there was
never anything like them. Since q
week Wednesday I've travelled Yankton
county over and it shows a big crop
every WHERE" Then some of the other
farmers Clipped in a duplicate expe-
%rieuce and the first speaker brought
down his hand on a sugar barrel and
said: s'Yankton county is the boss
county among them all-that you can
bet on"
The board of county commissioners be.
gan yesterday looking over the petition of
voters in Yenkton county asking the
board to submit the question of local
option to the people for IN opinion at
next election. The petition contains
e73 names and is nearly itty feet long.
The board did not finish the examination
OF the list, and nothing has been done
about it to-day because Of other business
OF Importance which was presented. The
list OF names on the petition will be
compared with the last poll books and
on Tuesday next the result will be made
public.
VIM Kramer, formerly proprietor of
the Merchants hotel in Yankton, writes
to the city an account OF the drowning
on Sunday last Of Peter Reddy, the
young man who assisted Mr.. Kramer In
conducting effairs about the hotel office
for many months last year. Mr.. Reddy
in running across a bridge in the suburbs
of Chicago 10 the night, fell through q
hole into the Chicago river and before
bis companion could get assistance and
reach him from the shore he sank out of
sight. His body was recovered on Mon
day. Mr.. Reddy has q brother in this
city and his parents reside in Nlobrara,
Nebraska.
A Wakonda special speaks of Tues
day hail storm as follows: A gentle.
man who had Just driven from Vermil.
lion states that at II o, m, hail laid on
the ground to the depth OF six inches
about twenty-four hours after they fell.
The mail carrier says he drove through
haIlstones in the road over knee deep to
his horses just after the storm. One
stone seven inches long and three inchee
in diameter was picked up, though the
most of them We're about the size of wal.
nuts. The storm extended over several
miles of country, in q strip about one
and a half miles wide. Corn lis stripped
and small grain lis literally pounded into
the ground. Trees are Invested OF leaves
and small limbs, Ali kinds Of fruit is
destroyed.
d. M. Inman, who went east through
Yankton on the cannon ball this after
noon, was spoken to on the train by
reporter. Mr.. Inman WAS first asked
where he had been. sob! up country
he SAID. Where? Bismarck ?" said th.
curious scribe. "No, but I'll be homes
about it," l have been to Huron" b.
replied. "ls the governor there r. wa,
the next question asked him 10 which
he answered in the affirmative. Their
: the reporter, concluding that Mr. .Inmar
had seen the governor
, asked if he, the governor
had said anything about approving the
plans for the YanSton insane asylum ed
dition Els reply confirmed thejdea tina
9 he had talked with the executive, whel
he answered.: M, not q word to me-
!, The reporter next intended to ask i
the governor wanted to see any of hi
! Yankton assistants, but the train moved
off.
Day befcr, yesterday Fred Kincel. q
CHIEF of the fire department. gave E. M
Coates notice that he would have to stol
storing ii hammable oils of any kind il
a his cellar. Mr.. Coates. in reply to TIL
order. said it was oil right, but that tn
a whole business was ~tomfoolery. Mr.
g Kinoel has since called on Mr.. Qoate
' and argued the matter with him, ant
q to-day Mr.. Coates gives the fac
away that he has not store,
any sort OF explosive or in1ammable oi
h in his cellar for some tune, except tn
q ~suaetits tie Law permits, five barrelt
r and that when he was notified that b
must not do SO he did not have fy
gsilons of kerosene or gasoline in ii
: house. He received q car load of oil tc
! day which had been sold before it arriv
, ed and which was delivered from th
|. car. Mr.. Kincel also Rave the ]. E
Queal lumber company notice of th
\ same nature.
MI. and Mrs. T. e. Thompson, {
= kansas City, and Mrs. NJ. e. Hall, fol
! merly of Yankton, are stopping at tn
Commercial ht tel for q short time repre-
sentIng Thompson's universal carmen
a cutter, a simple set of tools by whic
any family can cut ell garments accl
rately, in any size or style, for bot
eexes. The only device in e~xistenc
simple enough for general use without
tedious course of instruction. They a,
in town for the purpose of organizin
, southern Dakota for the sale of til
necessary invention and want good rel
re%sentatives, both gentlemen and ladie
to represent their business in this